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First furnished unit, a 2 bedroom condo I bought last year and switched over from unfurnished. This is the part I got wrong and it wasn't the furniture or the pricing. I listed at…
I've run this spreadsheet three times and the answer changes every time, because I don't know what belongs in the occupancy row. Duplex, one side would be the test unit. Unfurnish…
Two parks came across the same week from two brokers, twenty minutes apart in the same county. I'm nowhere near buying either, I'm trying to understand the spread. Park A, 52 lots…
Since I've posted two losses in this room I owe the other one. In early 2023 I put $60k into a recapitalization of a newer office tower in a strong downtown submarket. Built 2016,…
Under contract inspection period on a 1974 ranch, 1,480 square feet, asking 389k. The detached garage was converted to a studio at some point with a kitchenette, a three-quarter b…
The Fannie Mae change that lets you count ADU rent toward qualifying income on a one-unit house, up to 30 percent, has me confused. My plan was a three bedroom single family where…
I've got about $9,000 set aside and no shot at a conventional mortgage for another year or two, so I've been reading up on lease options instead of just refreshing listings. What…
I'm winding down a small service business and I also own the building it runs out of. My accountant used the phrase installment sale when I mentioned carrying paper for the buyer,…
Four unit, bought at 415k, put 90k into it, all four units now leased at market. Two offers, both bank contingent, both wobbly on the appraisal because there is not much comparabl…
Fourteen months, three properties under contract, none closed. Costs: 1,900 on the first including a sewer scope, 2,400 on the second, 2,500 on the third which included a lender a…
I don't want to be the one running this day to day, so I'm pricing management before I price buildings. Every article says 8 to 10% of collected rent. Then I called two companies…
Under contract on a 12 bedroom licensed boarding house in an older inner ring suburb. Purchase 690k, seller carry of 480k at 7.25% interest only for 4 years, balloon. I've got 210…
I've sat through three planning commission meetings in two counties where someone proposed a rooming house or a conversion to rooms. Every applicant led with the affordability cas…
Bought a 1972 built 12 unit walk-up about a mile from a flagship that's added enrollment every year for the last decade. Two bedroom, one bath units, 880 square feet, renting at $…
Agent walked me through a 4 bedroom near a state school, rented by the bed, and the lease he showed me runs August 18 to May 22. So on paper that's nine months of rent and three m…
I've had two sub-to conversations in six weeks and they were nothing alike, so I want to know which type people prefer to work with. Seller A is behind. Two payments missed, a not…
I'd been trying to figure out which strategy fit me and ended up in age-restricted almost by accident. 88 units, built 2004, three-story elevator building in a suburban submarket…
An owner I've done work around asked if I want a small piece of a building instead of an invoice, and I don't know enough to say yes or no intelligently, so here are the numbers h…
I've been building out the terms side of a small rural land plan and I've stalled on the document choice, because the two camps I read both sound experienced and they say opposite…
I've installed and repaired a fair amount of this equipment and I've never seen a lease handle it well, so I want to put the ownership question to people who underwrite these buil…